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Daenerys Entertainment and the Metropolitan ABC Group attracted the attention of most of the media. At the same time, another merger was also finalized during this time.

San Francisco, Silicon Valley.

On June 28, Tinkerbair, an emerging electronics company that has risen rapidly in recent years, announced that it has reached an agreement with online radio and audio sales website Broadcast, and the two parties will formally merge.Because they are both private and non-listed companies, Tincobair and Broadcast have not announced a specific merger agreement. Another piece of news accompanying this merger news has attracted more attention.

After the merger is completed, Tincobair will officially launch an IPO plan.In the past few years, Tinkerbair has frequently heard rumors about the upcoming IPO, because this company's growth rate is comparable to the new technology companies in recent years, and it is also considered to be a lot of women in the Westeros system. One (Tinkobair is actually the name of a woman), so the capital market has always been looking forward to the company's listing.

It's a pity that in the past several times, the following is finally gone.

This time, since it is an official draft, it is obviously unlikely to be fake news.With the announcement of the news and the mining of the media, the details of the merger of the two companies have been disclosed one after another. In this merger, the valuations of Tingkobair and Broadcast are respectively US$12 billion and US$2 billion, both of which are significantly higher. However, under market analysis, it is still believed that Tincobal is somewhat disadvantaged.

After Tinkerbair’s sales figures were released last year, the industry’s valuation of this company has reached tens of billions.

After the digital music player-10 launched in the first half of the year, Tinco Bayer has increased its production capacity to 300,000 units per month in the most recent month, and it is still in short supply. It is expected that the total sales will be comparable to iCam in just one year The series is quite.

This is equivalent to directly doubling the size of Tincobair.

Not only that, with the introduction and sales of the miniature hard disk version of iCam-50, Tinkerbayer’s digital camera market share has returned to more than 60% from 53% last year.Combining these positive factors, Tincobair’s valuation of $20 billion is not excessive.

Looking at Broadcast, from its launch in 1993 to the present, although the total number of registered users has exceeded 30 million, and a more suitable business model has been found, in 1994, the revenue of this network platform was only 26 million US dollars. In the future, this is actually only a little more than Tincobair's one-day revenue at this stage.

Although the revenue of Broadcast also started to rise rapidly after the launch of -10, the bubble component of the valuation of $2 billion is still very obvious.

However, the media had a lively discussion, and suddenly found that the two companies were ultimately companies in the Westeros system. In any case, the merger was just left-handed.What's more, everyone can see that because of the hot sale of the player, Tincobal won the Broadcast and completely controlled the content channel, which would only have a lot of benefits.

The same is actually true.

After this merger, the brand-new Tinco Baier's shareholding structure is more complicated, but the shares directly controlled by Westeros still reach 61.6%, and it is still absolutely controlled.Broadcast was incubated by the venture capital department of Igret, and Igret was absolutely controlled by Westeros. After the merger, the 8.1% shares nominally held by Igret are actually in the hands of Westeros system.

None of the other parties involved in the merger were dissatisfied.

In order to attract several major newspaper groups, Simon opened a series of projects that Igerett focused on incubating to these established media giants. Last year, the New York Times Company acquired 15% of the Broadcast website with $30 million in funds. , 15% of the New York Times Group's shares were converted into 1.8% of Tin Kebair's shares,

Girl C’s shareholding in Tin Cobble’s company has decreased from 15% to 13.2%. According to the combined valuation, the former Victorian housemaid walked out of Simon’s personal net worth also reached US$2.2 billion.

Another level of super rich is born.

It was comparable to Alice Ferguson, a former female housekeeper who had acquired 76 million shares of Igret some time ago.

As Igerett and Tincobell are listed, the two girls even hope to break into the top ten of the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans.

Not just'Daenerys','Igrid','Melli Sandra','Cersei' and other Westero system subsidiaries named after women, the Westero system has a huge net worth The powerful'women's gang' with outstanding ability has become more and more famous in recent years.

This is not the most important.

In recent years, all kinds of things are piled up one after another. Every time, the Westeros system can produce some big news that everyone pays attention to, even if many people are unwilling to admit it, Simon Weiss The increasingly large business empire built by Trow is also everywhere as a young man's net worth continues to soar.

Conspiracy theorists always feel that someone is quietly controlling the world.

This statement is actually true.

However, for Western countries with relatively complete social systems, it is difficult to concentrate power on a small number of certain people. It is actually a huge vested interest class that controls these countries.

In a deeper study, it is still two words, capital.

Now, as the Westeros system becomes larger and larger, because of the capital in his hands, the Westeros family has more and more hidden power in this country and this world.

From the perspective of the entire civilization evolution cycle, Simon created all this in less than 10 years, without giving too much reaction time to the old vested interests, which is actually no less than a violent revolution that changes the structure of social classes .

That's right.

Even though many people feel unwilling to admit that a whole new king has emerged in this world.

The king of capital.

Midtown Manhattan.

In the large conference room at the headquarters of the Elite model agency at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 27th Street, Grace Spurt only felt that a young man sitting next to him was his own king.

This is the morning of July 3, Monday, the day before the US Independence Day holiday.

Things have to start from a week ago.

Fernando Lima, who was signed by Grace at the beginning of the year, celebrated her 18th birthday on June 25th. Immediately afterwards, the Brazilian girl, who had just turned 18, won the new Victoria's Show Catwalk angel contract.The three daughters of Qusi Gaofu, Eva Hertzgova, and Daniela Pusterva, but Grace already has four members of the Victoria's Secret Angel.

Over the years, the circle has gradually discovered that the models who have the luck of appearing on the show stage of Wei Mi show can not only get the short view of the show show, but also the entire Westero system in entertainment fashion media and other channels. Comprehensive resource support.

In fact, this is also a win-win situation.

It's just the sale of videotapes of Victoria's Secret Show, which has brought hundreds of millions of profits to the Westeros system in recent years.

Therefore, as long as they can board the Wei Mi T, even if it is not the official spokesperson of Wei Mi, the value of the relevant models will increase significantly, and the invitations for the catwalk endorsements that can be obtained will also increase.

The total number of Victorian Legions is only about 40.

When many small model agency companies tried their best to fight for a Victoria's Secret Angel, Grace Spurt, an agent, occupied four places. How can other people not be jealous.

Even Elite President John Casablanca can't stand it.

Fernanda Lima's signing with Vimy became a hidden fuse.

The conflict between Casablanco and Grace doesn't stop there.

After the establishment of the new media operation department last year, Casablanca did not pay much attention at first, but did not expect that the development and expansion of this department will be so rapid. From the establishment of last year to the present, in just one year, Grace has the new media operation department in his hands. Signed a contract of 26 million US dollars with major brands.

Elite, founded in 1972, has evolved to the present. For more than 20 years, the division has spread all over the world. It is not a new media operation department. The total amount of contracts won for thousands of models last year was only 120 million US dollars.

This is already a giant level in the model agency industry.

It is just that these basic businesses suddenly pale in the face of the strong rise of the new media operations department.

If this department is directly controlled by John Casablanca, it’s okay, but it’s another company executive. John Casablanca is increasingly discovering that if Grace Spurt continues to be in charge of the new media operations department, Your position may not be guaranteed.

Not only that, at a meeting last week, Grace Spurt also proposed that she intends to create an advertising planning department again.

There are actually success stories.

The CAA in Hollywood successfully entered the advertising planning field a few years ago, and even won the Coca-Cola advertisement. The famous Polar Bear advertisement of Coca-Cola was from the CAA. At that time, it defeated many veteran advertising planning companies and related advertisements. A great success.

As the industry's largest model agency, Elite's current business core is still the traditional model agency business, which is definitely not a long-term sustainable business model.

Because the core of the brokerage company is people.

If the people are gone, then there is nothing.

Over the years, many modeling agencies have risen and died out.

If we can gradually develop other businesses and let Elite have relatively fixed'assets', this company can maintain its position for a longer period of time.

Grace’s suggestion is definitely for Elite. However, after running a company for more than 20 years, it has reached the peak of the industry. John Casablanca has not much aggressiveness, so he has been too lazy to open up new ones in these years. Business, however, he absolutely does not allow others to threaten his power.

If this advertising planning department is successful again, his founder may only be able to cover up.

So, Casablanca did not hesitate to reject Grace’s proposal. Not only that, but Casablanca also asked Grace to give up control of the new media operations department. He intends to take charge in person. In exchange, he can promote Grace to become the Elite North American branch. President.

Standard light and dark.

Grace naturally would not agree, a quarrel broke out quickly between the two sides, and then, John Casablanca announced on the spot that Grace was fired.

Suddenly this happened, and the whole Elite was a bit blind.

what's the situation?

Grace also simply, simply arranged, and left the company directly that day.

John Casablanca is both the founder, shareholder and president of Elite, and she is fully committed to expelling her, but Grace is more confident.

It is enough to have a certain man.

Called in the past, Simon was in Los Angeles at the time, just let Grace take a break for a while, other things don't matter.

For Simon, Grace is completely blind now, and men do what they say.

I have been busy for a year, and I haven't accompanied a pair of children for a long time. I simply took two children to play in the Caribbean.

In fact, I also know that Simon was a little busy during this time. I thought that I had to wait a long time. Unexpectedly, just one week later, I received a call again and asked her to return to New York.

This time, Grace came directly from the airport to the Elite headquarters on Fifth Avenue.

Before getting on the plane, I also got some information from Assistant Simon.

In just one week, it turned upside down.

At least, this is the case for Elite.

Talent agency companies are supplementary to many industries. Even giants such as Elite are ultimately just small plates.

Therefore, Simon only explained it, and it took only a week. Under the combination of hard and soft, Apollo Management Company under Cersei Capital negotiated an acquisition contract with Elite shareholders. Apollo Management Company paid $40 million. The quotation took 55% of the shares from Elite shareholders.

Due to the nature of Elite, this is actually a fairly generous price.

The total contract amount of US$120 million in 1995 seems to be a lot, but in fact, even if calculated according to the higher 20% commission in the modeling industry, ELite's income is only US$24 million, and most of the funds are still required by many of its brokers. Taken away, the so-called profits left to shareholders have been few and far between.

Now that absolute control has been achieved, John Casablanca, who had previously only held a 5% stake in Elite, was naturally swept away.

All you have to do today is handover.

Simon had the idea of ​​letting Grace take charge of Elite last year, and originally planned to simmer slowly for a while, and since this happened, it was simply neat.

Moreover, Simon also knew what kind of person John Casablanca was.

In the past history, John Casablanca, who was swept out of the house because of the scandal a few years later, turned against this circle and kept attacking to expose the inside of the modeling industry.

This time, Simon also gave John Casablanca a'vaccination shot' in advance.Not only did he want the other party to leave honestly, but he had to shut his mouth honestly after the other party left.It's also very simple.

In recent years, the'godfather' butt of this modeling industry is really not clean. The man always likes the 18-year-old girl terrier, largely from John Casablanca. In fact, the other party also likes younger girls, Simon casually Instructed, the Westeros intelligence team quickly collected a pile of black material that John Casablanca could sit under the prison for the rest of his life.